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The album's called Mixed Race because being mixed race is the single biggest influence on my music. You sat down at the table in my house and you saw every colour. It's made me much more open-minded than I could've been. I come from both worlds.
Back in Knowle West I grew up in a white ghetto and could go to a Jamaican club where there's no white people, and a white club with no other black people. And I never noticed. When I was twelve and my cousins Mark and Miles from the first line-up of Massive Attack would get ready to go out, they would be playing everything from Parliament to T-Rex. My Uncle Ken who brought me up is a white guy who got me into black music - he used to play Al Green, Sam Cooke and other legends all the time. So I grew up with all this different music, I've been blessed because no-one can put my music in a box – it's not black, it's not white, it's not female, it's not male.
Since Knowle West Boy I've been promoting that album, touring and looking for a singer. Normally I just meet singers by accident. But I'd been thinking about Mixed Race while touring the last album, and one of the live vocalists was Francesca – Frankey Riley. So the two of us just started recording immediately. All I've been doing is touring and recording. 'Cos it's getting harder out there, and the harder it is, the harder you have to work.
Also, I'm staying in Paris right now. My daughter's getting older and Los Angeles is just too far away from her, so I needed to move back. I like being in London, and I'm still here on and off. But I've got family and friends here and I don't get much time to myself.
So Paris hasn't had that much effect on my music, but it has given me space to work. Also, there are a lot of horns on this album and that wouldn't have happened in London. Here, you've got to go through people's managers, and I'm too impatient for that. A lot of the players on Mixed Race I just found on the street or met through friends. One guy was playing sax in the little square outside the studio and I just asked him to come in. This album was so different for me because it was so easy to get what I wanted in Paris.
And it's true that I've agreed to work with Massive Attack again. A year ago I would've said no. But what I like about it now is that, if we do an album together, people's expectations are gonna be high. It won't be easy. We're gonna have to make something really special. I think it's a challenge.
Mixed Race is a gangster album. I can't do gangsta rap. That's not me. I can't talk about being a bad boy, 'cos I'm not. But I've been around that. So this is the closest I can get to a gangsta album. Its very gully, as Jamaicans call it… very dark. Tense, street and urban. It's like a movie, almost.
This is also the most uptempo album I've done. I wanted something that could be played in a club… maybe! Which is unusual for me. Because I don't give a shit about clubs.
"Every Day"
The singer on this is Frankey Riley. Her dad's from Napoli and her mum's Irish. She is vocally the way I am musically. I soak things up and so does she. She takes things that you play her but then she twists it and does it her own way, like I do.
"Every Day" is like, "I can make thunder – I'm a spiritual creature." One lyric is, "I'm nothing/I move through walls." It's a voodoo song. I love that song and it's one of those things I've soaked up but used in my own way.
It reminds me I'm a songwriter and they're the best lyrics I've written for years. The first time I ever saw a picture of me and my mum together was last year, and she flows through me……
I am nothing, I move through walls,
I'll make thunder when the night come.
I'm full moon and the earth rotates.
I am Adam and Eve she waits.
I'm forsake, I'm the bird that flies.
I'm the low tide and the sun that rise.
I am plane in your friendly sky
I fly on the wings and the promise it brings.
I am hope, I'm the noose and rope.
I'm life, I'm death, I'm your last breath.
I'm seasons, I'm reasons, I'm why you should end.
You hate me you love me, I'm your best friend.
I'm earthquake and deep lake, the fish that swims free.
Straight to your plate, you can eat me.
I'm everyday, I'm everyday, I'm every day.
"UK Jamaican"
The vocalist is Terry Lynn, a Jamaican girl. I was at Chris Blackwell's place in Jamaica with Don Letts and he told me about this wicked female singer from Kingston. So he showed me her on YouTube and I was like, "Fuck!" I got in contact with her straight away. I've done a song on her new album, too. This girl's the future. The lyrics are all hers… she has her own version of the song. She comes from a place that's very hardcore. She makes a lot of guys look not so dark.
"Early Bird"
This is Frankey again. It's a jazz song, but done my way. It's about growing up and nearly being a thug. Watching my friends do it, being mixed race, being angry when I was a kid about my living conditions. We used to just take what we want and I had friends who were into professional violence. It's a little like "Council Estate" from the last album. There are a lot of guns on the album. I've been through all that but never talked about it. I realised that I've seen it and witnessed it, so I can talk about it. But I don't want to glamorise it 'cos there's nothing glamorous about it. I was lucky that I had music.
"Ghetto Stars"
I wrote all Frankey's lyrics except this one. I just played her this dark, heavy track which I only had a chorus for, went out for a couple of hours, and… wow. She wrote exactly what I was thinking. It's a gangster song, that tells it straight without glamorising it. Poverty breeds crime – people don't just wake up in the morning and want to be a gangster. Some rap music glamorises the gangster lifestyle, I've had real gangsters in my family, three of my family have been murdered, two of them have been shot, one of them stabbed, I remember not seeing my uncle for years, and asking my great grandmother where he was and her saying he's in prison but at least I know he's safe, and at least I know where he is. Having friends like Freddie Foreman, they all tell me to keep going with my music – they say that there's nothing glamorous about that lifestyle.
"Ghetto Stars" don't go far, ghetto traps, locked behind bars.
This is one of those situations where I didn't have a name for the song so I just named it after the singer. Hakim is (Algerian rai superstar) Rachid Taha's guitarist. Apparently, Rachid's been looking for me for years. So he tracked me down in Paris and we just started hanging out. He came down to the studio with Hakim and we did some songs. And Hakim just did this one while he was hanging around waiting for something to happen. I was only recording it to check the levels on his guitar! I listened to it after our day in the studio and I was like, "Fuck!" I haven't got a clue what he's on about. But he told me that it was about how that mad homeless guy on the street we all meet actually knows more than we do.
"Come To Me"
This is me and Frankey doing our take on that period when reggae was really influenced by American music. Almost like ska… but not. It's just a song about a girl, basically. The bit of taped music at the beginning is my friend Jen who I've lost contact with. It's a message she left on my answering machine in LA about eight years ago.
"Murder Weapon"
The first single, and a reworking of an old Echo Minott tune with Frankey on vocals. It was a big underground tune in the Jamaican community when I was young. I thought the original almost had a rock vibe to it. It isn't just that I love the song – it's also a part of my life. I moved into my sister's place years ago, and some people from her estate hated people from my estate. We went into this shop and one of the guys who had problems with my friends started singing "Murder Weapon" to me, as a threat. I've never forgotten it.
The reason there's a music box playing at the beginning is because of my good friend Charles. His mum had epilepsy and so did mine. He spent 13 years in the foreign legion, he'd been to 13 of my gigs, and he's got a 13 tattooed on his neck. He's not a musician, and making him play the music box and recording it was a way of getting him on my album.
"Time To Dance"
The closest I'm ever gonna get to disco.
"Really Real"
Its about time Bobby Gillespie was on one of my albums. We've known each other for years and he's a good mate. We bumped into each other in Texas, arranged it and he came over to Paris for the day. He works fast. I wrote the lyric and he wrote the melody. It's about how the lifestyle we live – being recognised and all that - just isn't real life. It feels like an illusion. And you can't take it seriously because your ego kicks in and then you're over.
"Bristol To London"
The vocalists are Blackman from London and my youngest brother Marlon Thaws. He's 24 and has been writing since he was 17. It's the first time I've worked with him because I didn't want to give it to him easy just because he's my brother. But in this last year he's just really come into his own. He had to find his own sound 'cos when he started he sounded like Dizzee Rascal or whoever.
It feels wicked to have him on the album. But not because he's family. It's because his lyrics on this track are the best rap lyrics I've heard in England. No one can touch these two guys. Marlon can talk about stuff I can't, because he was in the life. I had to take him out of England to keep him out of trouble. There's a line: "Locked up and nobody missed me." When you're in prison life doesn't stop. Your wife and kids and friends… they carry on. So that line is prison.
We've been playing a lot of the new stuff live. My show's changed a lot since Knowle West Boy, and I just can't believe the vibe and love people have been giving me. For the first time in my life it's started to sink in. I always thought you went out and entertained people and got nothing back in return. But in the last year, I've realised that what the crowd gives you is so amazing, that sometimes I just stand onstage and cry, to be honest. That sounds really pretentious. But it's true.
Some of my early albums sound like a mess to me… too cluttered. I don't understand them anymore. I wanted to avoid doing something like that, because my mind isn't cloudy. I'm not muddled-up or as confused as I was. I know what I want to do now. Mixed Race is deliberately direct and in-your-face. It's the easiest album to make that I've ever done.
- Tricky's 'Time To Dance' Remixes EP Out This Week
- Tricky To Release New Single and Remixes And Headline Blissfields Festival
- Tricky's 'Ghetto Stars' video
- Tricky announces UK tour for October 2010
- New Tricky website, video for Murder Weapon & London show
- Tricky Releases His Murder Weapon
- New Album from Tricky - Mixed Race - 27th Sept
- Tricky Meets South Rakkas Crew
- Tricky joins ATP curated by The Breeders
- When Japanese food goes Tricky


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National Geographic magazine has published thousands of the world's most striking photographs over the years, but if you think about it, the ones they published are only the tip of the iceberg. The magazine's archives contained many thousands of photos that had never seen the light of day. So they decided to make some of them available online. It is a remarkable collection. The oldest date to the late nineteenth century; the newest are quite recent. Most are in color, some in black and white. They were taken all over the world. Here are a few that I liked; they represent pretty much a random sample. Click to enlarge.
This one is like something out of a Werner Herzog movie. Taken in 1950, it shows porters carrying a car across a river on poles, in Nepal. God only knows why:
This beautiful girl was photographed in Sicily in 1909:
This one is undated, but it's the Golden Horn in Constantinople:
Looking at photos like these, you get the feeling that the past was a better world. There is, of course, some evidence to the contrary, but still… This one was taken in Queens in 1951; these people have evidently pulled over to watch a Pan Am Stratocruiser taxi across an overpass. One thing you notice is that there weren't as many people in decades gone by:
Three girls drink from a fountain in New York in 1948:
The Grand Canyon in 1956. I'm guessing they wouldn't let you do this nowadays. Which is another thing that strikes you, looking at these pictures: people used to be bolder.
Hong Kong in 1934. Study this picture for a few moments and you feel like you are in a noir film:
This was taken in South Dakota, at Dinosaur Park in the Black Hills, in 1956. I like it in part because I visited Dinosaur Park in, I believe, the same year, and was photographed next to that brontosaurus. We rode horses, too, but not right there:
Most of the photos of children in this collection depict them doing things that would now be considered dangerous or disreputable. These kids in Scotland, shot in 1919, should be wearing shoes, and that see-saw would never be approved on a modern playground. Plus, they are having too much fun:
For what it's worth, I would wager a nickel that the boy in the middle was an officer in WWII.
One last sample. This one was taken close to home, in Duluth Minnesota, in 1949. It's a lovely period piece, but it is hard to imagine that any place in Duluth ever looked like that:
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No debate that Osama bin Laden's death is one of the biggest news stories in years.
Except on the Web, where all of our tweeting and reading and live-streaming about it isn't generating nearly as much traffic as other big events of the last decade.
Here's a look at the last day of Akamai's "Net Usage Index For News," which is pretty much what it sounds like: It tracks interest via page views. Note the spike last night:
Akamai says traffic peaked around midnight, at 4.1 million page views per minute, which sounds like a lot. But it's not that much–it's not enough to crack Akamai's top 10 list, or even its top 14 (the Internet infrastructure company has been tracking this stuff since 2005).
If you want to really make waves on the Internet, it turns out, your best bet is to involve soccer, as four of the top five biggest Web news events did. Sports in general is a good bet–it accounts for seven of the top 14:
The obvious asterisk here is that the bin Laden news broke late on a Sunday night, when a good chunk of the U.S. was headed to bed and most Europeans were presumably fast asleep.
Had this popped on a weekeday, during daylight hours, it's reasonable to think this would have been much, much bigger. Maybe not soccer big, though.


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In conversational storytelling, the recipients are expected to show affiliation with the emotional stance displayed by the storytellers. We investigated emotional arousal-related autonomic nervous system responses in tellers and recipients of conversational stories. The data consist of 20 recordings of 45- to 60-minute dyadic conversations between female university and polytechnic students. Conversations were videotaped and analyzed by means of conversation analysis (CA), with a special emphasis on the verbal and nonverbal displays of affiliation in storytelling.
Despite growing acceptance of a "new fatherhood" urging fathers to be engaged in family life, men's relative contributions to housework and child care have remained largely stagnant over the past twenty years. Using data from in-depth interviews, we describe how identity processes may contribute to this persistent inequality in parenting. We propose that the specificity of men's identity standards for the father role is related to role-relevant behavior, and that the vague expectations many associate with "new fatherhood" both contribute to and result from men's underinvolvement.
In three studies, we examined the influence of social network reactions on feelings toward a romantic partner. Study 1 was a large survey (N = 858), Study 2 was a vignette design in which social network reactions were manipulated, and Study 3 was a laboratory-based, dating game experiment. We found extensive support for the social network effect, whereby relationship approval from family and friends leads individuals to feel more love, more committed, and more positive about a partner. We also examined whether psychological reactance moderated social network influence.
If you want to mix drinks for a living, don't expect to have a typical family life.
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We examine instances of youth cyber aggression, arguing that the close relationships of friendship and romance substantially influence the chances of being targeted. We investigate networks of friendship, dating, and aggression among a sample of 788 eighth- to twelfth-grade students in a longitudinal study of a New York school. Approximately 17 percent reported some involvement in cyber aggression within the past week. LGBTQ youth were targeted at a rate over four times that of their heterosexual peers, and females were more frequent victims than males.
Adolescence is a period of tremendous socioemotional change, when youth develop important relationship skills that they carry with them into adulthood. The mental health of individuals during this period might act as resources or impediments that impact their ability to cultivate such skills as well as outcomes in their later romantic relationships.
Research on young-adult sexuality in sub-Saharan Africa typically conceptualizes sex as an individual-level risk behavior. We introduce a new approach that connects the conditions surrounding the initiation of sex with subsequent relationship well-being, examines relationships as sequences of interdependent events, and indexes relationship experiences to individually held ideals. New card-sort data from southern Malawi capture young women's relationship experiences and their ideals in a sequential framework.


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What a lovely escape into rural France. And for crime fiction, even the brutal murder and subsequent investigation seems muted and gentled by the rolling hills, the mellow wine, and the rich and tasty food. But make no mistake. This is an intelligent novel, well written and full of political and historical reality and unafraid to deal with difficult issues.
Bruno is a village policeman, well versed with the ways of his sleepy but robust little town, from the markets to the vineyards. He has a basset hound, makes his own wine, grows his own vegetables, and teaches five year olds tennis. That way he not only participates in community service, but knows the characters of the boys when they become troublesome teenagers. Here's a quote about Bruno from Walker's website. "Bruno handles cases with great discretion, circulating so quietly and tactfully among his neighbours that his interviews are more like friendly visits; it's a wonderful detection method and even cannier literary strategy, allowing Walker to pursue the plot of his mystery while beguiling the reader with extended scenes of village market days, old-fashioned wine harvests, etc."
Martin Walker comes to his novel writing with an impressive list of credentials. He is an Oxford scholar, accomplished in journalism, European history, politics, international relations, and economics. He owns a basset hound, just like his character Bruno, and a house in the Dordogne region of France. This is the first in his Bruno series and he has written other books as well. His website is worth looking at. I'm sure I'll be making an armchair visit to France and this Bruno series again!
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VANCOUVER — Responding to complaints about the obscured view of the Olympic cauldron, officials have improved access to the dominant symbol of the Vancouver Games.
On Tuesday night, organizers moved the chain-link fence closer to the cauldron and opened an eye-level gap to allow for unobstructed views and photographs.
The Vancouver Organizing Committee has said the fence is necessary for both security and safety reasons.
Even before the recent changes, organizers had said it was rare for spectators to get so close to the Olympic cauldron, which is often atop a pillar or above a stadium.
VANOC spokeswoman Renee Valade-Smith said that at the Summer Games in Beijing visitors had to stand at a distance from Olympic stadium to get their picture taken with the flame in the background.
"I think it's quite remarkable that people can get as close as they can to this legacy cauldron," she said.


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A family in Chiayi County's Yichu Township (義竹) that had for years been disturbed at night by eerie noises and ghostly apparitions in their home has reportedly solved the problem after following the instructions of the main deity at their local temple.
Chen Jung-wen (陳榮文) said that he and his brothers purchased a 230m2 piece of land in their hometown, Ansiliao Village (安溪寮), in 1988.
They built a three-story house on the land costing more than NT$6 million (US$201,300 at current exchange rates). The house had six large suites, one for each of the brothers and one for their parents. The luxury mansion in the middle of a rural farming village was the envy of their neighbors.
However, when the family moved in, they had problems sleeping. Family members said they felt shadowy phantom shapes moving about at night and when they were in bed and half-asleep, they saw ghostly heads floating in front of their eyes.
"Almost every night we were disturbed and did not sleep well. On some nights it was so noisy, it sounded like a sports event. We were also attacked by sharp objects on several occasions. It was really scary," Chen said.
Neighbors also said that they often saw strange beings coming out of the Chen family house at night and villagers began to call the residence a "haunted house."
"When the house was newly completed, 16 family members were living there. Almost every day, three or four of us would fall ill. We took medicines and got injections, but they were not effective. I was diagnosed with oral mucosa cancer 12 years ago. Our family businesses started suffering and went downhill fast. We once owned family assets worth several hundreds of millions of New Taiwan dollars. However, we lost everything within five years and even worse, we ran up debts," Chen said.
"Our family was scared and fed-up with the ghostly disturbances. One by one, family members moved out. In 1995 we sold the house to our creditor for more than NT$9 million," he said.
"When the creditor registered the deed in his name, he immediately fell ill. He also was unable to sell the house," Chen added.
Chen said that about four years ago the family decided to seek guidance from the main deity at the village's Baoan Temple (保安宮) and the deity instructed the family to buy back the house.
The family did not have much money at the time, but the creditor was happy to sell the house back to them for NT$3.7 million. The Chen family moved back into the house in 2009.
Chen said the family were again disturbed when they moved back in. The ghosts and supernatural phenomena still haunted them at night, and their grandchildren were often so frightened that they wet their pants, he said.
"This year we again asked the deity at the Baoan Temple for guidance. This time the deity told us that the disturbances by the fiendish ghosts came from skeletons buried beneath the house, and instructed us to dig them up. We started digging on Feb. 12 and found human skeletal remains. Our family realized that the house must have been built on a graveyard and that was the reason behind the hauntings all these years," he said.
Chen said they found human remains at more than 10 sites around the house.
"The more we dig, the more we find. We have not finished digging yet and there are likely more bones beneath the house. However, the disturbances and unwelcome activities of the fiendish ghosts have been reduced by about 90 percent," he said early last week.
Following the instructions of the temple deity, the Chen family conducted Taoist ceremonial rites to release the souls of the dead from suffering and to help them achieve reincarnation.
Chang Ming-yung (張銘勇), a geomancer, said although ghosts, spirits and deities exist in popular folk beliefs, people should not become too superstitious.
"If someone believes he or she is seeing strange things and starts to make something out of nothing, any house can become a 'haunted house.' Such people normally scare themselves, rather than being frightened by ghosts," Chang said.


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Just one pill a day to control HIV? This once-fanciful idea became a reality in 2006, when Atripla was approved as the first single-tablet HIV medication regimen in the U.S. A single-tablet regimen (STR) contains meds from different drug classes and is a complete day's HIV meds in one pill. Atripla was the sole STR for years -- until Complera came along in 2011, followed by Stribild in 2012.
There are even more STRs for HIV on the horizon; but how do the three that are already available compare to one another? Thanks to the expertise of the folks at AIDS InfoNet and at Positively Aware -- home to the tremendously informative Annual HIV Drug Guide -- there's a wealth of facts and informed opinions available on all three pills, which we've sampled here in this infographic.
This infographic is just a starter guide to learning about these meds. Another great guide is your health care provider; when considering treatment options, please consult her or him.


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Each Saturday we reach into the fridge and pull out the best leftovers to eat. That is, the most-read posts of the past week, which for the week ending June 15, include:
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President Barack Obama canceled his campaign trips to Ohio on Wednesday as the rest of the 2012 presidential campaign prepared to largely resume its usual stride in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.
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President Barack Obama makes a statement in the White House briefing room following a briefing on Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 29, 2012.
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney — who was holding an event on Tuesday in Ohio ostensibly intended to collect supplies and donations for storm relief — appears set to head to Florida on Wednesday before heading to hurricane-stricken Virginia on Thursday.
Earlier Tuesday, the White House announced that the president will no longer make his planned campaign trip to Ohio, and instead remain in Washington, D.C., to monitor fallout from Sandy.
With just a week remaining until Election Day and precious few hours remaining for Obama and Romney to sway swing voters in a series of battleground states, both candidates had to weigh politicking with sensitivity to the East Coast victims of Hurricane Sandy.
Gov. Mitt Romney attended a storm relief event in Ohio, urging supporters to "make the difference in the life of one or two people" by donating goods to benefit the victims of Superstorm Sandy.
The president faced additional official responsibilities in assisting to restore power to millions of Americans without electricity, and helping states cope with damage to infrastructure and beyond.
Obama won plaudits from a top supporter of Romney's — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie — for his handling of the storm's aftermath.
But, speaking on Fox News, the pugnacious New Jersey governor also angrily dismissed efforts to interpret his comments through a political lens.
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In the final push in the 2012 presidential election, candidates Mitt Romney and Barack Obama make their last appeals to voters.
"I have a job to do," he said. "If you think right now I give a damn about presidential politics, than you don't know me."
Each presidential contender turned to surrogates on Tuesday to carry their message.
Related: Romney set to return to hurricane-stricken Va. on Thursday
Former President Bill Clinton was set to stump for Obama in Minnesota and Colorado, while Ann Romney was scheduled to hold a rally in Iowa following several hurricane relief events earlier Tuesday in Iowa and Wisconsin.
Wednesday's campaign schedule resembled a more traditional agenda for candidates just six days before an election. Vice President Joe Biden was set to make stops in Florida, and Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan was scheduled to campaign in his native Wisconsin.
NBC's Chuck Todd reports on how the campaigns are responding to the storm.
The Romney campaign's official mobile phone application advised events for the former Massachusetts governor in Florida.
At this point, Obama's next publicly advised campaign events were set for Thursday, when the president was scheduled to make a three-state campaign swing with stops in Las Vegas, Boulder, Colo., and Springfield, Ohio.
Also on Thursday, according to the Republican Party of Virginia, Romney will make the first trip of any candidate to that battleground since Sandy struck.
Romney hasn't visited the Old Dominion state since Oct. 17, and canceled a planned visit this past Sunday for fear of diverting resources from preparedness operations.
The hurricane's aftermath continued, though, to inject broader uncertainty into the race for president and scores of downballot campaigns, as candidates' schedules were re-arranged on the fly.
Power outages and canceled campaign events also complicated pollsters' efforts to gauge public opinion in states affected by the hurricane.
NBC News' Chuck Todd joins Morning Joe to talk about the impact of Sandy on the presidential race and what he expects from both campaigns going into Nov. 6.
Of additional concern to both campaigns might be impact of inclement weather and hurricane fallout on early voting, a process used by both Romney and Obama to bank votes ahead of Nov. 6 itself.
Biden suggested on the "Enrique Santos Radio Show" on Tuesday morning that the hurricane may depress early voting.
"It may, it's just hard to tell now," he said of the storm's impact. "We've gotten the early vote out pretty well so far."


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Welcome to this weeks episode of the I Hate Critics Podcast. This week we had four new movies. The Oscar nominated Danish Girl, the forgettable The Boy and The Fifth Wave and Dirty Grandpa which should have been really funny and obscene but instead it was just obscene and unfunny…but it gave us an excuse to make it a Robert DeNiro week.
Our Top Five this week is favorite Robert DeNiro movies. We talk Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Deer Hunter, Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle, Goodfellas, Casino and many more.
Our Undisputed Classic this week is Mean Streets, the movie that started it all for Martin Scorsese and Robert DeNiro.
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Both the Camden & Whitby hold a new and prominent luxury residential location in the Town Center of Alys Beach, as well as offer unique retail experiences. Architectural cousins, related but unique, each building is expressive of its own distinct personality. The architecture of these new buildings borrow from the rich traditional vernacular of Bermuda and the sculptural plaster language evolving at Alys Beach and are seamlessly woven into the fabric of the Town Center. The architectural details comprised of retail steel windows, iron balconies, crafted tile and large openings add a touch of modernity to the traditional and familiar forms of the massing.These residences were carefully crafted to take full advantage of their prominent location anchoring the Amphitheater. Each residence has a gracious outdoor terrace extending the main gathering spaces from the indoors to the outdoors, while the large open floor plans combined with the accompanying terraces are ideal for entertaining and family gatherings. Large, glazed window walls facilitate an outdoor lifestyle, with views to the heart of Alys Beach. The Whitby, situated just to the north of The Camden, is an anchor in Alys Beach's evolving Town Center. The larger of the two buildings, The Whitby offers a total of 12 residences, consisting of six 3-bedroom, 3-bath residences and six 2-bedroom, 2-bath residences. The top three floors offering extensive views of the Amphitheatre and surrounding Town Center, and the first floor to be occupied by retail experiences. With large windows, expansive balconies and spacious floor plans, these residences take full advantage of their proximity to the heart of Alys Beach's Town Center.
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Eat This Now: Birria en Barro at Birrieria Zaragoza
We love a lot more than sandwiches alone at Serious Eats, so in the spirit of A Sandwich a Day, here's Eat This Now, a quick look at what we're eating and want to talk about. —The Mgmt.
To be honest, you can order anything on Birrieria Zaragoza's condensed menu and leave in a stunned stupor. But on a recent visit with Joe, I was introduced to an item not currently listed on the menu: Birria en Barro. What was Zaragoza holding back from me?
I should point out that Birrieria Zaragoza specializes in Birria Tatemada, which owner Juan Zaragoza told me is his spin on the dish. It's basically traditional birria served like carnitas, so that the goat meat is served on a plate with a little consommé poured on top. And he's proud of it too, since he claims it better highlights the roasted meat.
En Barro skips the subtlety and submerges the meat in liquid, which is actually how most places serve it around town. It's good in a hearty, dead-of-winter kind of way, and absolutely ideal for those who also wanted more of the consommé devour. Still, there's no doubt that the meat looses its crispness and some of its personality along the way.
So why am I bringing this up? Well, Zaragoza also noted that you can get this huge bowl of the consommé with the meat on the side, thus preserving the integrity of the meat while also allowing you to slurp away with abandon. In other words, the best of both worlds.
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In Part 2, we continue to take a close at the history of Heavy Metal album cover artwork, this time delving into history unique to metal. From the development of the mascot (such as Eddie), to controversial art, we delve into the presentation of metal albums, as we move forward with our examination…
Hosted by Greg Davies, the Heavy Metal Historian Podcast delivers to you snippets of tales from years gone by in the world of Metal, one episode at a time.
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Metal Evolution: New Wave of British Heavy Metal
Metal News Links
All Four Members of DECAPITATED Accused of Gang Rape
CAVALERA CONSPIRACY Announce New Album, Unveil Cover Art
CHRIS CORNELL To Be Honored With Human Rights Hero Award
COREY TAYLOR On Feud With CHAD KROEGER: 'He's The One Who F**king Started It'
DEVIN TOWNSEND Offers Update on Planned $10 Million Symphony About Genitalia
Former KISS Guitarist VINNIE VINCENT resurfaces – to appear at Upcoming KISS Expo
In Canada, police claim that "playing loud, heavy rock music" is a gateway to hate groups
KORN Members To Perform With LINKIN PARK At CHESTER BENNINGTON Tribute Concert
METALLICA's 'One' Featured In 'The Punisher' Trailer
NITRO have reunited and released a new song – and the result is unexpected: "It Won't Die"
Recommended Listening:
- "Phantom of the Opera" by Iron Maiden from Iron Maiden
- "Run to the Hills" by Iron Maiden from Number of the Beast
- "Mad Butcher" by Destruction from Mad Butcher
- "The Unforgiven" by Metallica from Live Shit: Binge and Purge
- "Square Hammer" by Ghost from Popestar
- "Sunday Morning" by Velvet Underground from The Velvet Underground and Nico
- "Immigrant Song" by Led Zeppelin from Led Zeppelin III
- "Ratamahatta" by Sepultura from Roots
- "Heaven Beside You" by Alice in Chains from Alice in Chains
- "Cowboy Song" by Anthrax from Sound of White Noise
- "Mr. Attitude" by Judge Mercy from Live With It!
- "Pictured Life" by Scorpions from Virgin Killer
- "My Girlfriend's Girlfriend" by Type O Negative from October Rust
- "Disposable Teens" by Marilyn Manson from Holy Wood
- "Make Them Suffer" by Cannibal Corpse from Kill
- "In the Minds of Evil" by Deicide from In the Minds of Evil
- "Assault and Battery / The Golden Void" by Hawkwind from Warrior on the Edge of Time
- "One" by Metallica from …and Justice for All
- "Freight Train" by Nitro from O.F.R.
- "It Won't Die" by Nitro from Upcoming Nitro Reunion Album
- "Criminally Insane" by Slayer from Reign in Blood
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Symantec today announced it has reached an agreement to acquire privately held Nukona, a maker of mobile application management software, for an undisclosed price.
Symantec indicated the acquisition of Mountain View-based Nukona, expected to be concluded in April, is intended to further its strategy in managing and securing Apple iOS, Google Android and HTML5 apps, especially when the smartphone or tablet is owned by the employee but permitted for business use by the employer.
IN PICTURES: Top tech M&A deals of 2012
ANALYSIS: Cloud-based single-sign-on, a business perk for customers?
This "bring your own device" (BYOD) phenomenon, as it's called, is becoming increasingly prevalent in the enterprise and forcing IT managers to look to new management approaches.
Nukona's mobile management software includes an "enterprise apps store" for app distribution and a "policy manager" that can wrap apps in a management layer that allows IT to apply security policies for purposes such as authentication, enforcing encryption or setting restrictions.
C.J. Desai, Symantec's senior vice president, endpoint and mobility group, said the Nukona acquisition "will help organizations protect and isolate corporate data and applications across both corporate-owned and personally owned devices."
Earlier this month, Symantec also acquired Odyssey Software, a provider of mobile device management software as a foundation to enroll and manage all necessary device settings across a broad range of platforms.
Ellen Messmer is senior editor at Network World, an IDG publication and website, where she covers news and technology trends related to information security.
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Rick Mills, the new superintendent of Manatee County public schools, says that his "100-day entry plan" will be guided by one of the "21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership."
When I read Mills' reference to a leadership guru, my eyes rolled.
That's because nifty sayings about leadership are a dime a dozen (even though they originate in costly how-to books and are dispensed in high-priced seminars).
What's more, I have lost count of the number of new administrators who have introduced their initiatives for this community with sayings that are so generic they apply to Anywhere, U.S.A.
But, after reading the quotation in Mills' plan and reflecting on the unique challenges he and the Manatee school district face, I was impressed by his choice of words.
"People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision," Mills wrote, citing one of leadership guru John Maxwell's maxims.
During my 32 years of journalism in Manatee and Sarasota counties, few new local government leaders have needed buy-in -- from employees to members of the public -- more than Manatee's new superintendent.
Mills replaced Tim McGonegal, whose dedication to the job and respect for employees I admired -- which made his administration's serious failures, including some inexplicable mistakes in basic budgeting and accounting, painful to witness.
McGonegal went from losing the trust of two renegade School Board members to losing the confidence of the entire board -- and the public -- after the series of preventable, big-dollar errors.
In the five decades before McGonegal's downfall, Manatee's superintendents had earned and maintained a substantial degree of support and trust -- with one or two exceptions.
During that long span, the superintendents were criticized, as expected. They were not lauded as visionaries. But William Bashaw, Gene Witt and Dan Nolan had credibility and, as a result, usually received the benefit of the doubt if something went awry.
Since public confidence has evaporated, Mills and his administration must build credibility on their own.
Mills has an impressive background in education and the military and, as superintendent, will wield substantial power.
But he and his administration cannot rely on their titles or authority to gain support. They cannot simply say "trust us" and expect the school district staff or the public to be compliant.
Mills appears to have backing from members of a selection committee and the School Board. However, he'll have to earn the public's support the old-fashioned way -- by earning it.
More than his job is at stake.
Whether in Manatee or any other district, the public's view of the entire local-education system depends largely on two factors:
1. The attitude of parents and children, and teachers, toward their particular school.
2. The public's perception of the superintendent and his or her performance -- and approach to the job. People want to like, respect and trust the superintendent.
Those factors generally matter far more than any grand vision.
People want results from the superintendent, not abstract ideas. For Mills, the short-term vision should be of a district where things simply work.
Mills has the benefit of an outsider's fresh start (he came to Manatee from Minneapolis, by way of Chicago and a career as an officer in the U.S. Army) but he will be hampered by the loss of trust in the school district's administration and a vocal segment of the community that dislikes government and begrudges educators decent salaries and benefits.
It's encouraging that a priority of his 100-day plan is listening. There is no doubt people want to hear Mills' thoughts and aspirations, but they need to believe that their views matter every bit as much as the superintendent's vision. I hope he will be able to put the views of critics in perspective, and tap into a too-silent majority that values public education and wants to invest in it -- so long as the district is accountable and the money is well-spent.
The emphasis in Mills' plan on creating management systems that promote fiscal accountability will be, if it is effectively implemented, a crucial component for gaining -- or regaining -- the backing of public-education supporters.
The district certainly needs better tools and teams for evaluating and budgeting finances. Investments in staff and technology will be needed.
But I hope the new administration relies less on accounting buzz words (and fancy presentation methods) and more on old-fashioned accountability.
In other words, master basic math: Count numbers correctly. Make them add up.
The superintendent's plan also recognizes the need to bolster the school district's academic achievement, especially at under-performing schools, and reinvigorate a teaching corps that has been demoralized by pay cuts and embarrassed by the School Board and district administration. Progress on both fronts is vital.
Before Mills can successfully take on these two tough tasks, he will need personal and political capital -- the dividends he will earn if Manateeans buy into his leadership.
Tom Tryon is opinion editor. email@example.com.
Tryon: Manatee schools must focus on results
Rick Mills, the new superintendent of Manatee County public schools, says that his "100-day entry plan" will be guided by one of the "21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership."


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Christiane Truelove of MedAdNews Says "Buy Our Space, Not Our Words"
Every Friday, I look forward to receiving my issue of Pharma Blogs: Week in Review written by Christiane Truelove, editor at MedAdNews (subscribe here). I like it because it often has excerpts from my favorite pharma bloggers, including myself!
This past Friday was no exception. Part of Truelove's newsletter that day was devoted to editorial vs. advertising practices of medical journals like JAMA -- an issue I first raised in my post "Pimp My Doc!" over at Pharma Marketing Blog.
Here's what Truelove had to say on the subject:
The Wall Street Journal Health Blog's Jacob Goldstein has posted an interview with Catherine DeAngelis, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association: "'No doctor should be on a speakers bureau — none, zero,' DeAngelis said yesterday when she came by Health Blog HQ for a chat. Just in case we didn't get the message, she added that she once said to a doctor who dodged a tough question during an industry-funded speech, 'Do you understand what prostituting yourself is? That's what you just did.'"It's nice to be quoted by Truelove, but what I really want to focus on is Truelove's own opinion on the subject, which she thankfully includes in her article:
Mr. Goldstein writes, "How does DeAngelis reconcile her tough stance on drug information with the pharmaceutical ads that fill JAMA? She notes that ads don't run in the section of the journal where research studies appear, and says she routinely bars ads that she deems misleading: 'A couple weeks ago, the ad people came down and said, 'You know, you've cost us $750,000 this year because you've turned down ads.' I said, 'Is that all?'"
The latter statement was highlighted by John Mack of the Pharma Marketing Blog, who took the opportunity to illustrate the story in his own unique way. "This leads me to ask, how much money does JAMA and other medical journals make from pharma advertising if Catherine can shrug off $750,000 per offhand remark?" Mr. Mack says. "At what point does it become Kettle, Pot, calling each other black?"
I do wonder the same thing myself, yet as a trade magazine editor, I empathize with Dr. DeAngelis. In the final analysis, however, when it comes to advertisers, we should all be guided by Betsy Throckmorton, the newspaper editor in the journalistic novel Fast Copy: "They buy our space. They do not buy our words."This last statement of editorial principle is worth continued discussion and debate in the Pharma Blogopshere, which is confronted with the same "church vs. state" issues faced by publications like JAMA and MedAdNews; namely, the influence of advertisers over editorial content.It's interesting that this subject has been linked to CME, which I was the first to do, because pharmaceutical companies and physicians use the same "space vs. words" argument in defense of pharma-sponsored CME. Just as in medical journal publishing, there are "no strings attached" to pharma support of CME (see my "No Strings Attached" post to Pharma Marketing Blog).
In other words, "They Buy Our Space, Not Our Words" is equivalent to "No Strings Attached."
This cannot be true. There are always strings attached no matter what trickery you use to prove that there aren't any.
Say what you want Dr. DeAngelis, but if you keep losing $750,000 in advertising every time you criticize the pharmaceutical industry, some day, some one is going to notice and you will no longer be heard criticising the industry (at least not within JAMA). As Don Corleone said in the Godfather movie: "Someday - and that day may never come - I'll call upon you to do a service for me."
Actually, what really happens is advertisers don't give the publisher any more chances to provide THEM a service -- ie, provide ad space. [Sometimes, advertisers have no choice -- the publication reaches so many of their audience that it would be foolish to pull their ads from publications like JAMA.]
"Trade publications," whose mission is to promote the drug industry anyway, may feel the pressure from advertisers the most. As long as they continue to publish "rah rah" stories about the industry, sponsor industry awards, etc., they will will continue to receive the ads.
I've personally seen how advertisers influence content at trade publications when I was commissioned to write a piece for an un-named biotech publication. In the middle of the project, the editor called and cancelled the project for no good reason. He was apologetic and it was obvious that someone got back to him -- in a true Don Corleone manner -- about a previous article I wrote that was somewhat critical of biotech DTC advertising practices. It was clear that I would never write for that publication again.
Welcome to the world of trade publication!
What about pharma bloggers? For my part, I do not accept any advertising -- except for job notices and other types of "classified ads" -- on my blog (Pharma Marketing Blog) from pharmaceutical companies or from their big ad agencies that I often write about.
NOTE: Like many other bloggers, I run Google Adwords on my blog and other Web sites and these may include product advertising form pharma companies. However, I do not choose what ads are included in Adwords. Sometimes, I can filter out the ones I do not want -- eg, Lunesta adwords that I believe violate FDA regulations. But it's really impractical to monitor all the ads served and filter out all the unwanted ones.Truthfully, I never had to enforce or even publish this policy because no pharma company has ever approached me to place their product or service or self-promotional ads on my blog! I wonder why not!
It's a fact of life for me that I will never attract these kinds of advertisers, although I know that at least 40% of my readers work for the pharmaceutical industry. I will just have to survive without the ads.
And JAMA could live without pharma advertising as well, if the following comment to my "Pimp My Doc!" post has any merit:
The Senate Committee on Aging, which met yesterday, heard testimony from, among others, Jerome Kassirer, a Tufts University professor who was once editor in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, pointed out that NEJM and JAMA could produce editorial publications WITHOUT the need for pharma advertising. The income derived from subscription and classified advertising was sufficient to publish these prestigious journals. Why then are they heavy on pharma-related content? Is this where the "pimping" starts?Inquiring minds want to know.


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Basic Foccacia
cup Warm water (110 to 115 degrees)
1 tablespoon Sugar
ounce Yeast - (1 pkg)
(you may need more to achieve the smooth elasticity)
2 teaspoons Salt
2 tablespoons Olive oil
1 Italian Roma tomato sliced thinly
2 tablespoons Chiffonade of basil
cup Grated Parmesan cheese - (2 oz)
In a small bowl, dissolve the sugar in the warm water. Sprinkle the yeast over that mixture and let stand for 10 minutes, to bloom (it should begin to foam.) In the mixer bowl with the dough hook attached, add 3 cups of flour, salt and yeast mixture. Slowly turn it on and work the dough together. Turn it up to medium and mix for 5 minutes. If the dough is sticky, continue mixing and gradually add the remaining flour. Place this smooth ball of dough into an oiled bowl, cover and set aside to rise for 3 hours.
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Punch down the dough, and remove it from the bowl onto a lightly oiled, 9- by 13-inch sheet tray. Spread the dough out onto the sheet tray. Using your fingertips, make "dimples" in the dough. Drizzle the dough with olive oil, sprinkle on the basil, spread out the tomato slices, sprinkle on the cheese and bake for 30 to 35 minutes.
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We got this news from Pakistan:
Pakistan Gunmen shot dead five women working on U.N.-backed polio vaccination efforts in two different Pakistani cities on Tuesday, officials said, a major setback for a campaign that international health officials consider vital to contain the crippling disease but which Taliban insurgents say is a cover for espionage.
The women who were killed Tuesday — three of whom were teenagers — were all shot in the head at close range. Four of them were gunned down in the southern port city of Karachi, and the fifth in a village outside the northwest city of Peshawar. Two men who were working alongside the women were also critically wounded in Karachi.
The polio campaign in Pakistan has been shaken by Islamists' threats. Let's recall what happened in June this year.
An Islamist in Muzaffargarh declared the polio campaign 'un-Islamic' and announced at the local mosque that Jihad should be carried out against the visiting polio vaccination team.the local polio team entered Muzaffargarh's rural Khan Pur Bagga Sher area and asked local families to cooperate with the campaign.
When the local cleric, Maulvi Ibrahim Chisti found out about the campaign, he immediately went to the biggest mosque in the area and declared that polio drops are 'poison' and against Islam. He added that if the polio team forced anybody to partake in the vaccination campaign, then Jihad was 'the only option'…It's a Western conspiracy to render Muslims impotent!
What do Islamists want?
Islamists want boys to be physically crippled by polio and mentally crippled by Islam.
Like other religions, Islam is against science. Science and religion are 100 percent contradictory. Some cunning religionists claim that god created science so that they use all the technology products and scientific medicine without being questioned. But some dumbhonest (dumb but honest) religionists are reluctant to use anything scientific. Pakistani dumbhonest Islamists are so much against polio vaccine that they do not hesitate to kill polio workers. These Islamists believe prayers, not vaccines, are needed to get rid of polio.
Islamists are trying their best to make the world crippled. Should we continue to keep our mouth shut? We shouldn't.


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CARL Kirwan is desperate to make amends when London Welsh host his former club Rotherham Titans at the Kassam Stadium on Sunday (2.30).
New Greene King IPA Championship leaders Rotherham arrive on a ten-match league and cup winning streak.
Welsh, on the other hand, dropped to second after a shock 36-15 loss at Plymouth Albion last Saturday.
Flanker Kirwan, 22, is determined to bounce back against his old club.
"I know quite a few of the boys that are still there. They are doing really, really well.
"I want to get out there and put in a good performance in.
"It's massive for the game. We want to be top of that table. That's where we think we belong."
Welsh never recovered from a poor first half at Brickfields where Plymouth deservedly prevailed.
"It was a bad performance last week and we were not happy with that at all," said Kirwan.
"There are a lot of boys who made individual errors. We can only blame ourselves and look to put that right."
Kirwan says Welsh can make a real statement.
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Taking less salary to be a public-sector CIO isn't just about serving the public.
Working as a public CIO can be a stressful job that comes with some unsavory snags. The stress of working in the public eye can bring out the gray hairs. There's scrutiny from every direction — the media proffers criticism of every decision, there are co-workers who have agendas and don't cooperate, and with such pressure, even the CIO may come to privately second-guess his or her own decisions. Getting things done is never as easy as it seems — CIOs have to fill out three forms and hold a meeting just to use the restroom. And being a public servant means being responsible for millions of dollars and taking a pay cut for the privilege of working for government.
For example, the average salary of a state CIO is $130,552, according to a survey released biannually by NASCIO. This figure is more than three times as much as the average U.S. wage, so it's not as if state CIOs are hurting compared to the average American. But state CIOs make about one-third less than their private-sector counterparts who, according to NASCIO Executive Director Doug Robinson, make nearly $190,000 a year.
"We've been tracking this for six or seven years," Robinson said. "The majority of state CIOs leave. They come from the private sector and when they leave, they go back to the private sector."
It's more than just a $60,000 salary cut, Robinson said. Officials working for private companies also get bonuses, stock options and a better benefits package than those working in the public sector. So who in their right mind would tolerate the smaller paycheck in exchange for a bunch of headaches?
As it turns out, few tolerate it for very long. The average tenure of a state CIO is 20 months, Robinson said. This is partially because, in most states, the CIO is an appointed position, meaning state CIOs typically lose their job when there's a change in power. But it's also because it's a difficult job with comparatively low pay.
Jesse Rothstein, an associate professor of public policy and economics at the University of California at Berkeley, said it's a case of simple economics. "If you pay less, you can't get as competent or skilled a worker," Rothstein said. That's not to say there aren't competent, skilled workers in government — there definitely are. But the fundamental economic incentives for the most skilled workers to stay in government are missing. If the incentives are in the private sector, that's where the talent will go.
To some, this is a cold outlook. After all, money isn't everything. What about the people who want to make a difference or those who view the world through a pair of government-issued, rose-colored glasses?
2011 State CIO Average Salary - $130,552
2008 State CIO Average Salary - $124,740
2011 Private Company CIO Average Salary - $210,300
2010 Private Company CIO Average Salary - $219,300
2009 Private Company CIO Average Salary - $247,900
2008 Private Company CIO Average Salary - $237,360
2007 Private Company CIO Average Salary - $185,240
2010 #1 Highest State CIO Salary - Wyoming - $194,400
2010 #2 Highest State CIO Salary - Virginia - $191,906
2010 #3 Highest State CIO Salary - Texas and California - $175,000
2010 #1 Lowest State CIO Salary - Hawaii - $83,040 - $118,212 range
2010 #2 Lowest State CIO Salary - Vermont - $87,776
2010 #3 Lowest State CIO Salary - Maine - $96,553
2011 State CIO Average Tenure - 1 year, 8 months
2011 Private Company CIO Average Tenure - 5 years, 2 months
Sources: NASCIO, 2011 State of the CIO report and 2010 The Book of the States.
Melodie Mayberry-Stewart, who served as New York's state CIO for nearly four years before resigning in March, said salary wasn't a big consideration when she took the position. "It's about wanting to serve. You have to love technology and how technology can better serve the citizens," she said. But looking at friends in the private sector who make seven figures, she said, forced her to examine why she took the position of CIO in the first place.
"It's definitely a sacrifice when you look at opportunities in the private sector. You look at those temptations. You wouldn't be human if you didn't," Mayberry-Stewart said. But her desire to serve prevailed and she has no regrets, she said.
Having a fulfilling career requires more than money, Mayberry-Stewart said. "I think everybody wants to be where they can make a contribution and think what they do is appreciated," she said. But just because you're doing something in the public's interest doesn't mean it can't also be self-serving; for many, being a public CIO is an investment in time.
It also looks good on a resumé, Mayberry-Stewart said. "CIOs typically do well when they leave [government service]," she said. "Very rarely do you hear a CIO isn't able to find a position. Every career is a stepping stone to the next position."
In Mayberry-Stewart's case, leaving her post as New York's CIO opened several options and she chose a position as CEO at Tri Group Holdings, a technology and behavioral health consulting firm. "It's an opportunity for me to utilize all of my skills and for me to blend technology and health care," she said. The chance to help provide medical care to the poor and disenfranchised who are suffering from illness is a wonderful option that may not have been possible without the connections that came with being a state CIO, Mayberry-Stewart said.
Not everyone has such an idealistic outlook, however. Former Alaska CIO Anand Dubey was clearly frustrated by his time in public service. "Two kinds of people do it. One type does it for the retirement," he said. The second type of person, a category in which Dubey includes himself, does it as a one-time public service.
Having spent most of his career in technical and business consulting roles, Dubey said he was willing to accept a salary he normally wouldn't consider for a change of pace and chance to give back. "I was sick and tired of waiting on the sideline and offering ideas," he said. Dubey is also an immigrant and cited this as another reason he felt he owed the country a term of service.
"I knew ahead of time I wanted to do it for one term only," he said. "When all was said and done, I felt relief. The relief is unbelievable. I literally watched everybody, including myself, age on the job." New people came in, they were optimistic but they didn't understand how difficult it was to change anything, Dubey said. "They truly believe they can jump in and run the bureaucracy. It takes a year or two to understand the challenge," he said. And by then, time is up and they're on their way out the door.
The technical challenges Dubey faced were almost simple, he said, compared to the red tape involved.
"The bureaucracy is so amazing there's no way to describe it, no way to understand it unless you're actually in it," he said. That inertia made fixing even the smallest problem like pulling teeth, Dubey said, even though nearly everyone he worked with was highly competent.
"It's almost impossible to truly accomplish anything," Dubey said. "You have to focus on incremental change and continuing what the last guy did."
Perhaps the issue is that those who come from the private sector aren't ready for the reality of government work, especially when they also have to sacrifice a big chunk of salary. But state CIOs who've made a career of government work tend to have a different outlook.
Carlos Ramos, California's newly appointed CIO, has worked in the public sector for 24 years. Ramos agreed that working for the government is taxing, but he takes a more patient view of progress. Ramos said it's important for state CIOs to understand that government operates differently than a private company and that success depends on one's ability to embrace collaboration and see the bigger picture.
While many CIOs are only visiting the public sector for a couple of years before they return to the private world, there are those like Ramos, who begin programs in one department and get promoted somewhere else, but their work doesn't necessarily die when that happens. "I think the work I started in one area actually carries over very well, and I was able to continue it on a grander scale," he said. "So I guess I wouldn't look at it as a 20-month term."
Those who stay in government longer may be likelier to see their efforts succeed, but that's not to say there isn't room for talent from the private sector. "I think it's healthy to have a mix of private-sector experience and public-sector experience," Ramos said. "You also need innovation. Having people come in here thinking like business people is a good thing."
The issue of money returns, however, as attracting and retaining talent can be difficult, Ramos said. "Some of our most skilled technicians and engineers in our public safety communications office get picked off regularly," he said. "I think, in some cases, a better compensation package would help us retain very critically needed and trained staff."
But ultimately, the trials and tribulations of working for the government are a greater force than any salary, Ramos said. Offering more money wouldn't be enough to entice people to stay. "If you're coming into government or public service just for the money, you're not going to last," he said. "Ultimately you [must] have a passion for public service and a commitment to making a positive impact because the money's only one part of it." ¨
Colin Wood is a technology writer based in Folsom, Calif.
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ATLANTA - Georgia lawmakers have just one day to make major decisions on whether to limit lobbyist spending, loosen gun laws and pass the state budget.
The General Assembly meets only 40 days annually, meaning its session Thursday will be the last for the year. State lawmakers start voting early in the morning and keep going chaotically until the clock strikes midnight. Any bills that do not pass the House and Senate by then automatically fail for the year.
The biggest question is whether Georgia lawmakers vote to limit lobbyist spending, resolving an impasse between the House and Senate. Imposing limits is a long-term goal of an alliance of conservative and government watchdog groups that have steadily built up public pressure for their cause. Lobbyists can now spend as much as they want to influence lawmakers so long as they disclose the spending.
House Speaker David Ralston earlier this year proposed prohibiting lobbyist spending on individual lawmakers, though his bill would allow spending on committees, subcommittees, delegations and caucuses. It would also require some volunteer lobbyists to register with the state and publicly report their spending. While Ralston calls the rules necessary to crack down on unreported lobbying, Senate Republicans and other critics accuse the House of retaliating against tea party and other groups that pushed for restrictions.
By comparison, Senate lawmakers have proposed imposing a $100 cap on lobbyist spending and closing some of the gaps in Ralston's plan. The Senate would keep the current rules on lobbyist registration, which generally do not require volunteer lobbyists to register.
Lawmakers face embarrassment should their negotiations collapse. Over the summer, Georgia voters supported putting limits on lobbyist spending in nonbinding ballot questions. About 87 percent of voters in the Republican primary election - roughly 827,800 people - voted in support of a $100 limit on lobbyist gifts. Nearly 73 percent of voters in the Democratic primary - about 423,800 people - voted in support of stopping unlimited lobbyist spending on lawmakers, though that ballot question did not propose a specific limit.
"I think there's always some room for compromise, but obviously compromise requires both parties to participate," said Sen. Joshua McKoon, R-Columbus, who introduced legislation to limit lobbyist spending last year and has continued the effort this year. "And I don't know if the House is willing in any way to move from their position, which I think is frankly unconstitutional."
Ralston initially opposed limiting lobbyist spending, then reversed course after this summer's vote. He has compromised on other aspects of his bill, but he has openly mocked the Senate cap and insisted that lobbyist registration requirements must be expanded.
"One thing that we have found out is that people who lobby don't want to be called lobbyists in this process," Ralston told reporters on March 21. "But they're lobbying. The Senate apparently doesn't see that as a problem. We took a lot different approach, and I haven't changed my mind about that."
The chambers also have competing proposals on gun laws.
Senior Republicans in the House want to allow students with weapon licenses to bring their guns onto parts of public college and university campuses. That legislation, supported by the gun owners group GeorgiaCarry.Org, would also allow people who have voluntarily received in-patient mental health treatment in the last five years to get a license to carry a firearm. Probate court judges now have discretion over whether to issue licenses to those applicants.
A Senate-approved gun plan, one backed by the National Rifle Association, would make less sweeping changes. It would require that Georgia recognize licenses to carry weapons issued by other states. A conference committee planned to discuss that legislation Wednesday afternoon, said Sen. Frank Ginn, R-Danielsville, who sponsored the Senate plan.
"We'll certainly come up with a workable solution - or at least I hope we will," he said.


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Holy crap, how is summer halfway over already?
I have, like, eight recipes for rhubarb stuff on my delicious (warning: about 80 lemon-related recipes ahead) and rhubarb season is already starting to slip away. Gah.
At least I got this one out of the way.
Sadly, though, procrastination got the better of me and I'm only posting it now . . . about five weeks after making it. This is bad for several reasons.
1) Rhubarb season is slipping away quickly.
2) Now I am craving a piece of this cake and there is none to be had.
OK. Two reasons.
I love crumb cakes. And I love rhubarb. So, really, there was no debate on whether or not I'd be giving this recipe a shot.
Sadly, my crumb topping didn't turn out quite as nicely. In fact, I had to kind of manipulate the crumb topping into actual "crumbs" (I suspect I needed a little more butter), but it was still delicious. A nice layer of sweetened rhubarb slices through the middle was a good contrast to the cake and sweetened crumble topping.
Normally, I'd meditate more on the failures of this attempt, but, let's face it, it was cake, with rhubarb, topped in a mixture of sugar and butter. Even if the crumb topping was kind of crummy, it was still going to be fantastic.
Update: I just went back to Smitten Kitchen's recipe and found that I'm not the only one who had problems with the crumb topping. Apparently, it's all about the order in which you mix the crumb ingredients… (Instructions below the recipe will outline the correct way.) Yay! Now I'm ready to try this again and hope for much better results.
This is courtesy of Smitten Kitchen, which she apparently adapted from the New York Times.
'Big Crumb' Coffeecake with Rhubarb
Rhubarb filling
- 1/2 pound rhubarb, trimmed
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 2 teaspoons cornstarch
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
Crumb topping
- 1/3 cup dark brown sugar
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup butter, melted
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/3 cup sour cream
- 1 large egg
- 1 large egg yolk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 6 tablespoons softened butter, cut into 8 pieces.
Preheat oven to 325. Butter an 8-inch-square baking pan.
Slice the rhubarb into 1/2″ thick pieces, then toss with sugar, ginger and cornstarch.
In a large bowl, whisk together the sugars, spices and salt into melted butter until smooth. THEN, add flour with spatula or wooden spoon. It (should) will look and feel like a solid dough. Set aside.
Stir together sour cream, egg, yolk and vanilla. Using a mixer, stir together flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Mix in butter and a spoonful of the sour cream mixture until flour is moistened. Increase speed for 30 seconds. Add the rest of the sour cream mixture in two batches, beating for 20 seconds each time. Scoop out about 1/2 cup of the batter and set aside. Put the rest of the batter into the prepared pan.
Spoon rhubarb mix over the batter, then top with dollops of the 1/2 cup of batter set aside.
Using your fingers, break topping mixture into big crumbs — 1/2″ to 3/4″. Sprinkle over cake.
Bake for between 45 and 55 minutes — until a toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean.


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An Intimate Conversation with the Sass Dragons
The Sass Dragons are a punk rock band from the suburbs of Chicago. The Sass Dragons are Mike Oberland, Jimmy Adamson, and Jason Smith. They recently relocated to the city, and are about to celebrate their fifth anniversary as a band. I sat down with them in the beginning of March to reminisce about their oeuvre. (Warning- the following is lude, crude, and incredibly immature.)
Kelly Reaves: How did the band form?
Jason Smith: On a damp locker room floor. Read the rest of this entry »